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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 6821108" data-attributes="member: 20005">1. Yes, they actually got me back into the hobby and I enjoy them a lot.2. I've tried a lot.  Most don't grab my attention after a few episodes (and I feel gracious giving some of them more than one episode).  The ones that I still follow (when they update) are The Adventure Zone (5e), Crit Juice (4e though I think they've started doing twitch with 5e), Never Tell me the Odds! (FFG Star Wars), Campaign (FFG Star Wars), and Godsfall (5e).  I'll listen to One Shot (various games) if it looks interesting or has a good cast that episode.  One addendum: personally, I can only make time for audio APs.  I've actually stripped the audio out of Critical Role episodes so I can listen to it in the car.  I do not have the time in my life to sit down at my computer and watch a stream for an hour or more.  I like podcasts because I can listen to them while I'm doing something else.  I recognize that I may be in the minority here, but I'm only interested in audio productions.3. I don't care about sound effects so much.  The only one that I listen to regularly that uses sound effects is Godsfall and I'm still getting into it.  What I do care about is that everything and everyone sounds clear.  I don't remember the name, but I tried to listen to a podcast with a group playing 13th Age and the audio was horrendous.  I think there was at least one player on Skype whose volume was just completely out of whack from the others and it just made me turn it off.  I don't think I made it past the first episode (there were some other annoying bits that I can't recall as well).  However, I'm pretty sure that most of the podcasts that I do listen to regularly are edited.  They do it very well so I don't often realize it, but it's there and it makes the product better.  4.  It depends on the players.  In fact, I think that's true for all the podcasts.  If you have entertaining people, they will make combat entertaining.  If not, even if everyone at the table is having a good time, I'm checked out.  I quit listening to Critical Hit because of incredibly long combats (4e) that the players struggled to make entertaining.  5. I prefer an entertaining podcast which usually will have times of both.  Generally though, great humor is more important to me.</blockquote>

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